000 02849nam a2200205 4500
008 091119s2009 miuaf b 001 0 eng
020 _a0802827489
020 _a9780802827487 :USD60.00/33.54
090 _aBV803
_bF38
_b2009
100 1 _aFerguson, Everett,
_d1933-
245 1 0 _aBaptism in the early church :
_bhistory, theology, and liturgy in the first five centuries/
_cEverett Ferguson.
260 _aGrand Rapids, Mich. :
_bWilliam B. Eerdmans Pub. Co.,
_c2009.
300 _axxii, 953 p., [12] p. of plates :
_bill. ;
_c25 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 _aSurvey of literature -- Washings for purification in Greco-Roman paganism -- Words from the bapt- root in classical and Hellenistic Greek -- Jewish washings, baptismal movements, and proselyte baptism -- Baptism of Jesus I -- Baptism of Jesus II -- Other references to baptism in the gospels -- Baptism in the Pauline epistles -- The Acts of the apostles -- Baptism in the rest of the New Testament and summary -- Apostolic fathers -- Christian pseudepigrapha and apocrypha -- Apologists -- The Pseudo-Clementines and Jewish Christianity -- Jewish and Christian baptisms -- Marcionites, those called gnostics, and related groups -- Irenaeus -- Clement of Alexandria -- Writings attributed to Hippolytus -- Carthage : Tertullian -- Carthage : Cyprian -- Origin and early development of infant baptism -- The controversy over "rebaptism" in the third century -- Origen -- Syria in the third century -- Sources at the turn of the fourth century -- Egypt in the fourth century -- Jerusalem in the fourth century -- Writiers in Syriac in the fourth century : Aphrahat -- Writiers in Syriac in the fourth century : Ephraem the Syrian --
505 0 _aThe school of Antioch : Theodore of Mopsuestia -- The school of Antioch : John Chrysostom I -- The school of Antioch : John Chrysostom II -- Miscellaneous sources : church orders and "eunomian" baptism -- Cappadocia : Basil the Great -- Cappadocia : Gregory of Nazianzus -- Cappadocia : Gregory of Nyssa -- The delay of baptism : sickbed baptism, believers' baptism, and infant baptism -- Milan : Ambrose -- Other North Italians -- Spain -- Some other Latin authors -- Egypt : Cyril of Alexandria and the Coptic rite -- Writers and writings in Syriac and Armenian -- Greek-speaking Syria -- Baptism in the Messlaian controversy -- Asia Minor and Constantinople -- Ravenna and Rome -- Gaul and North Africa : Gennadius of Marseilles, some African councils, and Quodvultdeus of Carthage -- North Africa : Augustine of Hippo I -- North Africa : Augustine of Hippo II -- Baptismal fonts : East -- Baptismal fonts : West -- Conclusions.
650 4 _aBaptism
_xHistory
_yEarly church, ca. 30-600.
951 _p33429
_x00038538
_oBV803/F38/2009
_j091119120819720
_d2000-12-21
_cGC
999 _c33843
_d33843